Leona Maricle

{{short description|American actress}}

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| name = Leona Maricle

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| birth_date = December 23, 1905

| birth_place = Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.

| death_date = March 25, 1988 (aged 82)

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1933–1946 (film)

| spouse = Louis Jean Heydt
(m. 1928; div. 1947 or 1948)

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Leona Maricle (December 23, 1905 – March 25, 1988) was an American stage and film actressBlottner pg. 235 known for "distinctive characterizations of colorful ladies."

Maricle's parents were Mr. and Mrs. Peter Maricle. She was a graduate of the College of Industrial Arts.{{cite news |title=Heydt--Maricle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29108967/the_montclair_times/ |accessdate=March 4, 2019 |work=The Montclair Times |date=August 22, 1928 |location=New Jersey, Montclair |page=4|via = Newspapers.com}} Her Broadway debut came in The Trial of Mary Dugan (1927). Her final appearance on Broadway was in Never Too Late (1962).

In the mid-1930s, she and her husband were active in summer stock theatre in Skowhegan, Maine.{{cite news |title=Colorful Ladies Are Specialties of Leona Maricle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29110534/leona_maricle/ |accessdate= March 4, 2019 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=October 7, 1934 |location=Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |page=SO 11|via = Newspapers.com}}

Maricle married actor Louis Jean Heydt in New York City in 1928.{{cite news |title=Marriage In "Mary Dugan" Co. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/08/18/archives/marriage-in-mary-dugan-co.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=May 13, 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=August 18, 1928 |page=12|url-access=subscription }} They divorced in either 1947 or 1948.{{Cite news|title=Drama Desk|author=Cohen, Harold|date=March 12, 1947|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|page=12|quote=Leona Maricle, the newspaper publisher of 'State of the Union,' is right now in the process of getting a divorce from Louis Jean Heydt, Helen Hayes' leading man in 'Happy Birthday' on Broadway.|id={{ProQuest|1854395825}}}}Cail, Harold L. (August 26, 1948). [https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-express/147288212/ "Two on the Aisle"]. Portland Express. p. 29. Retrieved May 13, 2024. She did not remarry.{{Citation needed |date=December 2021}}

On March 25, 1988, Maricle died of an apparent heart attack in her apartment in Manhattan. Her obituary in The New York Times gave her age as 81.{{cite news|title=Leona Maricle, Actress, 81|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/31/obituaries/leona-maricle-actress-81.html|accessdate=January 24, 2017|work=The New York Times|location=New York, New York City}}